The writing has been on the wall for delicious for years. They never made any money, never found mainstream adoption, never made use of the enormous flow of user sharing data they were getting to do anything interesting. They have been operating on a skeleton crew for years. Such a shame.
Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us
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#22Who makes a decision like this? The only reason I have a Yahoo account is for delicious.
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#23Ideas and startup goes to Yahoo to die.
I personally believe that without big players like Yahoo!, many ideas would not become startups because there'd be no exit strategy nor funding.
@pavs - Where do you work that's better? What ideas have come out of it that are even worthy of having a Hacker News thread? What products do you work on that people love so much they're distraught with a mention of them not existing? Link me, :D.
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#24sad.
Sorry Josh, it's them not you.
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#25I have to admit, since I started using Xmarks I pretty much stopped using del.icio.us. My last addition to del.icio.us was July of 2008.
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#26Delicious is a black hole for me. I have 95 bookmarks, and once something is bookmarked with it, I never visit it later. Is this unique to me?
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#27It's been a busy day over here.
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#28Google, buy del.icio.us from yahoo, please!
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#29I wonder if it'd even be possible to donate it to some foundation that preserves influential websites.
It'd be a pity to leave delicious and just trash it, instead of archiving it somewhere.
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#30Delicious is a black hole for me. I have 95 bookmarks, and once something is bookmarked with it, I never visit it later. Is this unique to me?
Same here. Instapaper is another one but I visit it once in a blue moon.